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On the Move : Steps aimed at reducing our workload – to a level appropriate to the dignity of our ages and our rising hopes for an increase in repose. Or to put it another way, to take life a bit easier as we get older.

Today, the sky is clear and the sunshine brings a cheer to the soul, but no warmth for the body : there’s an icy wind from the Siberian tundra. But the Hebridean Woolshed 2018 has new heating and lighting, and even before winter is out, is getting ready for Spring opening in just a few days.

There’s the almost-indigo of field scabious ; There’s the pinks and purples of heather, both the bell and the ling ; the jade green of moss, in patches on the near-starved soils of the high and north-facing slopes ; the burnt orange of the carnivorous sundew, and the the tall grasses and reeds, yellow gold in the low autumnal light. A haze of colour, bleeding from the moutainsides, smudged in the drifting mist and attenuated by the distance. Welcome to our new, limited-edition Uist Landscapes hand-spun merino wool yarn : Mountain Haze

Bog Myrtle (or if you prefer, Sweet Gale) is a shrubby plant that found its place in the human economy in ancient times, along with the likes of the olive and other oil-rich herbs used in food, drink or medicines.

It’s that time of year again. The wool is piling up, and the point comes where, if we not to be overwhelmed by the stuff, sorting the great and the good from the condemned to the compost heap has to start now. But it’s warm day for warm work!